Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 18, 2005, 2:14 PM EDT for Erie County, New York. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 2005, 2:14 PM EDT (18:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2005, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Erie County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 46 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1367 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 707 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KBUF 181816 FFWBUF NYC029-182115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 214 PM EDT MON JUL 18 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN ERIE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 515 PM EDT * AT 210 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR COLLINS IN ERIE COUNTY. * THE STORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL MOVE EAST AT LESS THAN 10 MPH. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. LAT...LON 4246 7890 4250 7867 4262 7868 4257 7891 $$ BLACKBURN
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KBUF 181912 FFSBUF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 310 PM EDT MON JUL 18 2005 NYC029-182115- ERIE NY- 310 PM EDT MON JUL 18 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 515 PM EDT FOR SOUTHERN ERIE COUNTY... AT 310 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD DISSIPATED, BUT THAT CLOSE TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN THE TOWN OF COLLINS. THERE IS A THREAT OF ADDITIONAL STORMS IN THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. LAT...LON 4246 7890 4250 7867 4262 7868 4257 7891 $$ BLACKBURN
000 WGUS71 KBUF 182049 FFSBUF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 450 PM EDT MON JUL 18 2005 NYC029-182100- ERIE NY- 450 PM EDT MON JUL 18 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ERIE COUNTY IS CANCELLED... AT 450 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD EXITED THE AREA...THUS THE FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LAT...LON 4246 7890 4250 7867 4262 7868 4257 7891 $$ SFM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 10:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Lewis, Oswego | 3 hr |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.